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Forced into using Ubuntu... 18.04.... (lemmy.ca)
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When I decided to switch to using Linux as my primary OS I had Artix and Debian dreams (personal and work/enterprise) but the refurb dell 5420 rugged I got had other ideas... Tried many distros and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was the only one that worked without nomodeset. (Funnily enough that's the version Dell officially supports who would have thought..)

Guess I now have a year to figure out how to get these darn Intel GPU drivers to work on an up to date distro before I stop getting security patches..

(Still gonna run KDE tho)

My business VPSs are running Debian with windows server VMs and this laptop's main purpose is gonna be SSH connections to those anyway but still.

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[–] [S] 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That's exactly what I'll have to figure out! Either that or find room in my budget for a newer rugged laptop.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Best of luck! I suspect you'll have to find out which kernels support your hardware, but the other commenter seems to know more!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Yeah, trying kernel versions incrementally is probably the only way I could end up on newer software but in that case I'd probably still be limited to enterprise LTS software so we'll see what I end up doing.

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